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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB.
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:32:32
Message-Id: FAA8C42E-AE24-4403-9146-6E0D201412CB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: LC_ locale settings for UK / GB. by walt
1 On 11 Jul 2009, at 00:05, walt wrote:
2 > On 07/10/2009 02:48 PM, Stroller wrote:
3 > ...
4 >>
5 >>
6 >> Googling "LC_* environment variables" turns up this doc:
7 >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-localization.xml#doc_chap3
8 >> ...
9 > Unless you have some very arcane lanuage needs you can just set the
10 > value of LC_ALL instead of worrying about nine different ones.
11
12 FWIW the linked Gentoo Linux Localization Guide specifically warns
13 against this:
14
15 "Warning: Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it can't be
16 overridden later on. Please use it only when testing and never set it
17 in a startup file."
18
19 Stroller.